It is quite possible to get a class 3 tax stamp to purchase a fully automatic

weapon in the us and to then legally own 1.

It requires a police chief, or deputy chief. Sheriff, or deputy Sheriff

to sign off on the application $300 dollars and an fbi background check

payed for with the $300 dollars mentioned above.

of the weapons so owned legally by none police citizens not 1 has ever been used by the legal owner to commit murder.

although I believe 1 police swat team member did shoot his wife and another man

when he came home unexpectedly and there may be some instances with military

not noted here.

And while it is true that a number of new gun owners who have purchased guns to

defend against violent family members have either been shoot with their own

guns or had to shoot that violent family member this says more about the courts

failing to lock up violent people rather than gun ownership.

what happened at the elementary school was sad, but had the teachers principle

and janitor been armed less children would have been killed.

The police can not be every were if they could this would be a police state.

This is not what the founding fathers had in mind, with freedom comes

responsibly,in phoenix open carry is allowed and at christmas time the various

gun clubs run armed patrols on horseback and not surprisingly vary little theft

happens in mall parking lots. legal gun ownership is not the problem illegal

use of guns to perpetrate violence is.

Do you mean to argue that there is something uniquely violent about the US that leads to the higher incidence of firearm fatalities other than the number of firearms owned by its citizens?
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

With the first indication that you are not a responsible member of society in any way, shape or form ...

Let ye who is without sin be the first to cast a stone?
I wonder how many "good guys" become "bad guys"?
And why is "felony arrest" your apparent criterion for not being a responsible member of society? Not everyone gets caught. Not all irresponsible actions are felonies. Not all people "guilty" of an irresponsible behavior maintain that behavior throughout their lives.

(quote) Do you mean to argue that there is something uniquely violent about the US that leads to the higher incidence of firearm fatalities other than the number of firearms owned by its citizens?[/quote]
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yes a vary small vary violent group of citizens are not being incarcerated

but even if they were

In fact, the CDC has released final totals for 2010 and preliminary figures for 2011.

Those statistics show that in 2011, the U.S. saw 11,101 firearm homicides and 851 accidental shooting deaths.

By comparison, 33,554 Americans were accidentally poisoned to death last year; 34,677 died in motor vehicle crashes; 38,285 took their own lives; and 26,631 died as the result of injuries sustained while falling down.

something else to consider is that calafornia and texas both are larger than

most of the country's the us is being compared to and that is just 2, of 50

The ban on 30 round clips/Magazine{LOL}in D.C. are so ineffective that even a talking head like David Gregory who is in D.C. can get one, AND, did so on national T.V. That would make David Gregory one of them sloppy in nomenclature, imprecise in communication, bad at buzz words, and a law breaker.